Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAGPhotography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Wherever people feel safe – they will be indifferent.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Art is a form of consciousness.
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I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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